Sunday
: Mostly cloudy. A 40 chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning. Humid, highs in the mid
80s.

Sunday night: Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.

Fewer than 2,000 were still without service by the afternoon, spokespersons for First Energy and Cleveland Public Power said. They were expected to have power by midnight.

Neither utility reported problems meeting demand, but Shelley Shockley of CPP said customers could help conserve energy by setting air conditioners to 76 degrees and using ceiling fans to promote cooling.

"Even having a few clouds in the sky helps," said Mark Durbin of First Energy.

Overcast skies held Thursday's high to 88 degrees, according to the National Weather Service -- "but we'll make up for it tomorrow," meteorologist Martin Thompson said.

Lakefront beaches will offer no relief. Bacterial levels are predicted to exceed safe levels and remain unacceptable for swimming for at least the next three days at the three beaches in Cuyahoga County monitored by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District and at others monitored by the Ohio Water Science Center's Ohio Nowcast program. That essentially takes in beaches from Toledo through Lake County.

The combination of high temperatures and intense rainstorms "typically causes problems," according to the sewer district.

About 140,000 people, mostly in central and southeast Ohio, remained without power from a storm that struck last week. Pablo Vegas, president of American Electric Power of Ohio, said the storm caused more outages and did more damage than Hurricane Ike, when its remnants hit the state in September 2008.

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